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The practice of having a slip that read “Five leaves left” was where Nick Drake got the title for his first album (somewhat eerily recorded five years before hi

by dhosek 2y ago

The practice of having a slip that read “Five leaves left” was where Nick Drake got the title for his first album (somewhat eerily recorded five years before his death).

locusofself 2y ago
One of the best albums ever IMO, just finished the excellent biography that came out a couple years ago by Richard Morton Jack
y33t 2y ago
I've begun to notice the number five a lot. I was reading Tammy Wynette's wiki page the other day and noticed that it appears quite a bit -- born May 5th (5/5), married five times, dead at 55. She also collaborated with the KLF, a pop group from the early 90's which also had an unusual number of fives to do with them (as well as 23's...2+3=5? Oddly, Tammy has a memorial highway in Missippi, MS23). Which brings me back around to Nick Drake. One of the members of the KLF now runs a small web store which mostly just sells his books to do with his post-KLF career, but they also sell other things as well, like overstock Nick Drake album tuck boxes...which are designed to hold all five of Nick Drake's albums. https://www.alimentation.cc/product/tuck-box/ https://www.alimentation.cc/product/tuck-box/ Not sure what any of this means. Edit: just noticed that I responded to your post five hours after you posted it.
- gwern 2y ago
  You have discovered the Law of Fives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numer... ; as it is written: > In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
  - y33t 2y ago
    It goes back at least to Plutarch: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how it ended up in a temple of Apollo I'm sure I don't know.
  - latexr 2y ago
    What a fantastically unaware admission of confirmation bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

by dhosek 2y ago

The practice of having a slip that read “Five leaves left” was where Nick Drake got the title for his first album (somewhat eerily recorded five years before his death).

locusofself 2y ago

One of the best albums ever IMO, just finished the excellent biography that came out a couple years ago by Richard Morton Jack

y33t 2y ago

I've begun to notice the number five a lot. I was reading Tammy Wynette's wiki page the other day and noticed that it appears quite a bit -- born May 5th (5/5), married five times, dead at 55. She also collaborated with the KLF, a pop group from the early 90's which also had an unusual number of fives to do with them (as well as 23's...2+3=5? Oddly, Tammy has a memorial highway in Missippi, MS23). Which brings me back around to Nick Drake. One of the members of the KLF now runs a small web store which mostly just sells his books to do with his post-KLF career, but they also sell other things as well, like overstock Nick Drake album tuck boxes...which are designed to hold all five of Nick Drake's albums. https://www.alimentation.cc/product/tuck-box/ https://www.alimentation.cc/product/tuck-box/ Not sure what any of this means. Edit: just noticed that I responded to your post five hours after you posted it.

gwern 2y ago
You have discovered the Law of Fives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numer... ; as it is written: > In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
- y33t 2y ago
  It goes back at least to Plutarch: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how it ended up in a temple of Apollo I'm sure I don't know.
- latexr 2y ago
  What a fantastically unaware admission of confirmation bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias